by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 29 Last week I shared a sonnet by poet-priest Malcom Guite, “Palm Sunday” (read my post). Today, on Palm Sunday, as we enter Holy Week, I am sharing a poem, also named “Palm Sunday,” by Marie J. Post. With haunting...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 28This is a high interest post for coffee lovers. Geisha coffee? Have you ever heard of Geisha coffee? No? Neither had I until my son gave me a small bag of coffee from Panama, a gift to him while he was there that he shared with me. As...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 27#PoetryFriday 26-0327 This Sunday we will celebrate Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. And so I am sharing “Palm Sunday,” one of the Holy Week sonnets by the poet-priest Malcom Guite published in his book Sounding...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 26 Fire drills. Tornado drills. Lockdown drills. Tsunami drills. Earthquake drills. Shelter-in-place drills.All sounds of impending danger. How do these monthly drills affect our children? As I ponder this, I take a step back from this...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 25 A Bite of a Slice is a moment within a Slice of Life. What is a Travel Bite? It is the retelling of a moment that I captured in real time during years and years and years of travel. I’ve crisscrossed the country for more than...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 24 In a couple days, in my heart, quietly, I will celebrate my dad’s birthday. He has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. The last day I was with him was my wedding day, the day he gave me to another man to have and to...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 23Written from a freewrite in my 2015 Journal The sun rose around 7 AM. When I looked out my dining room windows, I could see the shape of the magnolia buds, shadows against the dimly lit sky, a sign that spring is coming soon. The sun...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 22 I inherited my mom’s cookbooks. In the stack is a spiral bound cookbook she had purchased from one of my children’s school fund raisers: Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook. Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook I like to read cookbooks,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 21 Baking an apple pie? Which apples should you choose? One afternoon — when I was a novice at all things baking — I stood in front of the bins of apples in our grocery store’s fresh produce section, totally confused...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 20#PoetryFriday, 26_0320 In about a week, we will celebrate Palm Sunday–the first day of Holy Week, perhaps the most celebrated week in Christianity. It begins with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, recorded in all four Gospels...
